They’ve had a good run, but let’s face it; it’s over.
For the record, I love women.
16 thoughts on “Women”
Related from Wired, The Glorious Victories of Trans Athletes are Shaking Up Sports. (Regarding the image of “Laurel” Hubbard I should probably provide a reminder that it’s extremely dangerous to forget you can’t really apply bleach to your eyes).
So which approach is most fair? “Fair is a very subjective word,” says Joanna Harper, a transgender woman, distance runner, and researcher who served on the IOC committee that developed that organization’s current rules.
One way to address these issues, Heather [physiologist at the University of Otago in New Zealand] and her colleagues wrote in an essay published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, would be to create a handicap system that uses an algorithm to account for physiological parameters such as testosterone, hemoglobin levels, height, and endurance capacity, as well as social factors like gender identity and socioeconomic status. “Such an algorithm would be analogous to the divisions in the Paralympics, and may also include paralympians,” they write. Instead of two divisions, male and female, there would be multiple ones and “athletes would be placed into a division which best mitigates unfair physical and social parameters.”
Well, I can see a glaring issue there: future Olympic gold medalists will be continually traumatized by having to field inquiries regarding which gold medal they won.
I can’t locate it right now but Sailer recently made the observation that part of this trans nuttiness might actually be coming from Islam. They find homosexuality so revolting that one could presume they find the idea of an effeminate man actually becoming a female preferable to accepting normal buggery.
Headline: “Motocross star who identifies as bicyclist breaks all bicycling world records!”
That’s what they’re essentially doing in rejecting the idea that XY folks have a big advantage in most sports. Her suggestion to use sophisticated formula to make things fair is no different from crunching a bunch of numbers on brake horsepower, curb weight, muscle mass, and frame weight to create a “fair” competition between motorcycles, mopeds, electric scooters, and bicycles. Whatever the result turns out to be, nobody will mistake it for an actual bicycle race.
You know, this concern about men competing in women’s sports also applies to the other way around.
Is this fair?
Caitlyn Jenner had competed in the Olympics as a “man” and had swept the track-and-field events leading to victory in the Decathlon.
The left: ‘we’re all equal. We’re all the same!’
Also the left: ‘segregation is the answer!’
The algorithm is called, the Progressive Stack.
“They find homosexuality so revolting that one could presume they find the idea of an effeminate man actually becoming a female preferable to accepting normal buggery.”
That’s not speculation – that’s actual fact in Iran (and was a major plot point in an episode of “The Blacklist”).
Regarding your last paragraph I read something a while back about Iran supposedly forcing transgender people to undergo sex-change surgery.
Ooops–this was supposed to be a reply to the first comment by Curt Thompson but I guess that’s not what it wound up under.
Perhaps, but they are still vital for the production of replacement transsexuals.
Not really because men have babies too.
I’ve seen some very effective and very brief (5 to 15 second) Youtube ads for our governor’s race where high school girls and parents say the Democrat candidate will destroy women’s sports. Nothing over the top, nothing detailed, basically girls saying “It’s not fair.”
Parents might never discuss it in public, but I wouldn’t be surprised if trans-athletes will be the big elephant in the room in this election. Daughters and female sports icons aren’t theoretical, they’re very real, and all their hard work is being thrown back in their face by people we’d normally regard has either being absolute jerks or having profound mental health issues, or both.
A politician that profoundly violates the burning notion of fairness, one held by conservative businessmen, black pastors, and radical feminist, is likely going to lose badly, even if everybody is afraid to confess what they’re going to do in the polling boot to stop the madness.
I _really_ like the “polling boot.” I think we should use it vigorously and often.
I met an Olympic gold medalist last July. Kikkan Randall and her partner Jessie Diggins were the first American women to win any medal in cross-country skiing. It was a relay race. Randall worked for about 20 years to reach that point and competed in five Olympics. Soon after winning the medal, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She’s battling cancer with the same intensity as she attacked the courses in skiing and plans to compete in the New York Marathon. Her story is very inspiring, but if the male to female trans athletes have their way, few American women will have a chance to be competitive any more. That simply isn’t right.
She let me hold her gold medal. It was surprisingly heavy. Kikkan Randell has a remarkable story. I predict she’ll kick cancer’s ass.
Related from Wired, The Glorious Victories of Trans Athletes are Shaking Up Sports. (Regarding the image of “Laurel” Hubbard I should probably provide a reminder that it’s extremely dangerous to forget you can’t really apply bleach to your eyes).
So which approach is most fair? “Fair is a very subjective word,” says Joanna Harper, a transgender woman, distance runner, and researcher who served on the IOC committee that developed that organization’s current rules.
One way to address these issues, Heather [physiologist at the University of Otago in New Zealand] and her colleagues wrote in an essay published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, would be to create a handicap system that uses an algorithm to account for physiological parameters such as testosterone, hemoglobin levels, height, and endurance capacity, as well as social factors like gender identity and socioeconomic status. “Such an algorithm would be analogous to the divisions in the Paralympics, and may also include paralympians,” they write. Instead of two divisions, male and female, there would be multiple ones and “athletes would be placed into a division which best mitigates unfair physical and social parameters.”
Well, I can see a glaring issue there: future Olympic gold medalists will be continually traumatized by having to field inquiries regarding which gold medal they won.
I can’t locate it right now but Sailer recently made the observation that part of this trans nuttiness might actually be coming from Islam. They find homosexuality so revolting that one could presume they find the idea of an effeminate man actually becoming a female preferable to accepting normal buggery.
Headline: “Motocross star who identifies as bicyclist breaks all bicycling world records!”
That’s what they’re essentially doing in rejecting the idea that XY folks have a big advantage in most sports. Her suggestion to use sophisticated formula to make things fair is no different from crunching a bunch of numbers on brake horsepower, curb weight, muscle mass, and frame weight to create a “fair” competition between motorcycles, mopeds, electric scooters, and bicycles. Whatever the result turns out to be, nobody will mistake it for an actual bicycle race.
You know, this concern about men competing in women’s sports also applies to the other way around.
Is this fair?
Caitlyn Jenner had competed in the Olympics as a “man” and had swept the track-and-field events leading to victory in the Decathlon.
The left: ‘we’re all equal. We’re all the same!’
Also the left: ‘segregation is the answer!’
The algorithm is called, the Progressive Stack.
“They find homosexuality so revolting that one could presume they find the idea of an effeminate man actually becoming a female preferable to accepting normal buggery.”
That’s not speculation – that’s actual fact in Iran (and was a major plot point in an episode of “The Blacklist”).
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29832690
Harrison Bergeron, call your office.
Regarding your last paragraph I read something a while back about Iran supposedly forcing transgender people to undergo sex-change surgery.
Ooops–this was supposed to be a reply to the first comment by Curt Thompson but I guess that’s not what it wound up under.
Perhaps, but they are still vital for the production of replacement transsexuals.
Not really because men have babies too.
I’ve seen some very effective and very brief (5 to 15 second) Youtube ads for our governor’s race where high school girls and parents say the Democrat candidate will destroy women’s sports. Nothing over the top, nothing detailed, basically girls saying “It’s not fair.”
Parents might never discuss it in public, but I wouldn’t be surprised if trans-athletes will be the big elephant in the room in this election. Daughters and female sports icons aren’t theoretical, they’re very real, and all their hard work is being thrown back in their face by people we’d normally regard has either being absolute jerks or having profound mental health issues, or both.
A politician that profoundly violates the burning notion of fairness, one held by conservative businessmen, black pastors, and radical feminist, is likely going to lose badly, even if everybody is afraid to confess what they’re going to do in the polling boot to stop the madness.
I _really_ like the “polling boot.” I think we should use it vigorously and often.
I met an Olympic gold medalist last July. Kikkan Randall and her partner Jessie Diggins were the first American women to win any medal in cross-country skiing. It was a relay race. Randall worked for about 20 years to reach that point and competed in five Olympics. Soon after winning the medal, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She’s battling cancer with the same intensity as she attacked the courses in skiing and plans to compete in the New York Marathon. Her story is very inspiring, but if the male to female trans athletes have their way, few American women will have a chance to be competitive any more. That simply isn’t right.
She let me hold her gold medal. It was surprisingly heavy. Kikkan Randell has a remarkable story. I predict she’ll kick cancer’s ass.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikkan_Randall
https://www.teamusa.org/News/2018/February/21/Kikkan-Randall-Jessie-Diggins-Win-Team-USAs-First-Womens-Cross-Country-Skiing-Olympic-Medal
I used to love women too, but now that I’m a geezer, “I don’t need pussy anymore, but I still like it.” Don’t tell my wife I said that.
My adoration for the P-word is unsurpassed, but I love entire women, too. They’ve always been my best friends.
Probably not the funniest line ever recited by Jack Nicholson, but I think the funniest line in “The Departed.”